The show goes on – virtually

Dear all, On we go in the strange virtual world. I’m beginning to miss the physical reality of seeing people. However, all your feedback about what we’re doing keeps us on our toes and is a reminder that we’re not just playing and singing to ourselves in the front room! Please find the links for …

Happy Easter and what a strange old world!

Dear all, I never imagined that I’d ever be saying this, (since to do this at any time over the past seven years would have been business suicide!), we are running a session tomorrow on Easter Monday, as well as on Wednesday and Friday this week. It just struck us here that since our target …

Image Quality – it’s not your connection

Dear all, Right at the bottom of this post you’ll find 3 access links for our virtual sessions next week. Same rules as last week. Let us know if you’re watching from far away so we can give you a shout out. If there’s a birthday we need to cover please let us know about …

Owen’s Little Music Makers Online Debut

Here’s the link to the first ever virtual Music Makers session, live streaming at 10am tomorrow, Thursday 2nd April 2020. https://youtu.be/WVU9SIT0wbU Things to note. The online world is a minefield from a safe-guarding point of view. YouTube streaming is the most safeguarding-compliant option I’ve been able to identify. Unfortunately, as we have to state that …

Owen Little Music goes fully online … soon!

As I’m sure you’re all finding, it’s taking a while to get the head space clear for anything other than just figuring out the weird new landscape we’ve all been thrown into. Virtual sessions for Owen’s Little Music Makers: we’re not quite there yet – I spent this afternoon taking part in a webinar for …

Signing off for holibobs

Dear all, A big thank you to everyone who supported this year’s Summer Mondays series and helped to make it a success. This is the good, slightly weird email/post that I get to write once a year. No session dates. No cunning plan on my part to try and tempt you all along. This is …

Am I about to “lose my shirt”?

Dear all, Please don’t worry, despite the heat I don’t mean that in any kind of literal sense! First things first, we finished our offering for the 2018/19 academic year last week, so there are no more Wednesday and Thursday sessions until September. But fear not, Summer Mondays are here. Please find the relevant details …

Beer Festival and Summer Mondays

Dear all, First things first, sorry, we’re not all off to a Beer Festival, although if you come along on Thursday you might get quite heady on gorgeous aromas! So, NB Thursday people, it’s the Beer Festival next weekend so we’ll be using the main Church on Thursday – enter the site via the pedestrian …

February half term 2019 (and lost property!)

Dear all, Having fought our way through many challenging sets of weather conditions, it appears we’ve made it to spring half term relatively unscathed. A big thank you for the continued support of all our regulars, and a very warm welcome to all newcomers. We’re now taking a week off and will be back in …

Music Makers – what a week!

Dear all, Firstly, a big thank you to those who made it out last Wednesday and Thursday. In the snow on Wednesday it took me an hour and ten minutes to get over to Chorlton from Stretford, including a particularly frustrating 15 minute stop-start – mostly stop! – crawl from opposite St Clement’s to turn …